Monthly Archives: January 2009

Where a plaintiff has moved to have the defendant's counsel disqualified from representing them, I find that the motion should be granted, as it appears that the attorney will be required to testify as a witness in the case and ...

Can a convicted child molester be prohibited from accessing the Internet from his home while on supervised release? The answer is “no,” according to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which emphasized in a case it decided recently that ...

A Barnstable kindergartener who was allegedly sexually harassed by an older student can sue the school district for gender discrimination under §1983, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The student, Jacqueline Fitzgerald, told her parents that whenever she wore a ...

In case you can’t get enough of Superior Court Judge Ralph D. Gants’ bid for a seat on the Supreme Judicial Court, check out these YouTube clips from his Jan. 14 Governor’s Council hearing. Thanks to Docket reader Boston Joe ...

Should you ever find yourself in the back of a police cruiser, you may want to watch what you say. A drug defendant in federal court recently sought suppression of statements he made to his wife — which were recorded ...

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $113 million jury verdict in favor of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary against a Canadian biopharmaceutical company over sales from a popular treatment for age-related macular degeneration. The ruling ...

A federal judge has sent to the Supreme Judicial Court legal questions raised by a lawsuit, which demands that cigarette maker Philip Morris USA Inc. provide early-stage lung cancer detection, according to Law.com. The purported class action in the U.S. ...

The U.S. District Court, which last June solicited comments regarding proposed modifications to its plan for the prompt disposition of criminal cases, has approved the changes, which took effect last month. The changes eliminate sections no longer applicable; add statutory ...

A federal lawsuit filed by a local non-profit organization against Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan, in a desperate attempt to prevent revamped child support guidelines from taking effect this year, has met an abrupt end in ...

Richard Vitale, the former accountant and campaign treasurer of House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, pleaded not guilty to charges he violated state lobbying laws and will face a trial scheduled to begin in June. Vitale, 63, of Boston, and his ...